Impress must return Mosley’s tainted cash

TWO days into this paper’s investigation and Max Mosley’s reputation – already deeply tarnished by a sadomasochistic orgy with prostitutes – sinks ever lower.

Confronted with the Mail’s revelations about his racist, thuggish past – in a devastating, surgically brilliant interview by Channel 4’s Cathy Newman – the ex-F1 chief was arrogant, evasive and contradictory.

At the 2008 News of the World orgy privacy trial, did he lie under oath about a vile pamphlet he published as an agent for his father Sir Oswald’s party during a 1961 by- election? The very suggestion was offensive, he said. But after being handed the Mail’s dossier, the CPS has passed the matter to the police to consider.

Were the contents of this hate-fuelled leaflet – which claimed that ‘coloured immigrants’ brought diseases to the UK – racist? Eventually, after suggesting the document might be a hoax, he conceded they were – but still he refused to apologise.

Today we reveal grim details of how in 1962 Mr Mosley and other British fascists travelled to Venice – stopping off to visit the death camp at Dachau – to attend a conference alongside a gruesome array of Nazis and fascist sympathisers including two ex-Waffen SS officers. Significantly, Mosley Jr had a place at the top table. As with so much that is deeply controversial about his life, neither Dachau nor Venice featured in Mosley’s 2015 memoir – which also provided a highly selective account of his violent involvement in a notorious rally in a Jewish district of the East End weeks later. But then, as our investigation has repeatedly proven, he has a genius for forgetting his past.

With each new disturbing detail, it is ever clearer why Mr Mosley seeks to neuter the Press by bankrolling both the controversial state- approved regulator Impress – shunned by every national newspaper – and Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson, who is a bitter critic of the media.

Labour yesterday was right to damn Mr Mosley’s leaflet as ‘utterly repugnant’, but just refusing to accept further donations is not enough. Mr Watson must admit he was wrong about a man he once said he was proud to call a friend and hand back the £540,000 he uses to fund a small army of advisers in his private office.

As for Impress, it must now confront its benefactor’s indefensible past. If this body of Press-hating zealots had one ounce of genuine morality it would immediately break off the relationship and hand back Mr Mosley’s tarnished millions, today.